just another infosec blog

obtaining information about a site

The art of obtaining information has always been an important feature to quest for throughout the history. As someone once said, “knowledge is power”. The more we know about a thing the more are we able to master it, or conquer it. The same thing goes for web sites. The more we know what others do on their sites – the more can we be influenced to do a better job.

There are many CLI/CMD/GUI tools out there which allows you to get information about a site. That’s completely fine and dandy, but I prefer web based tools. Using web based tools allows me to do quick scans whenever I do not have my laptop available. Sometimes I just pull out information because I am nosy.